2009 term United States Supreme Court opinions of Antonin Scalia

Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm'n

558 U.S. 310 (2010)

campaign finance reform • Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 • First Amendment • free speech • corporate speech

Alito; Thomas (in part)

Webster v. Cooper

558 U.S. 1039 (2009)

habeas corpus • statute of limitations • GVR orders

Scalia dissented from the Court's decision to vacate a lower court's decision and remand for further consideration in light of the Court's decision in Jimenez v. Quarterman. Scalia objected that, as Jimenez was decided more than two months prior to the lower court's decision under review, there was no basis for treating Jimenez as an "intervening factor" that the lower court could not have considered.

Maryland v. Shatzer

559 U.S. 98 (2010)

Fifth Amendment • Miranda rights • release to general prison population as break in custody

Roberts, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito, Sotomayor; Thomas (in part)

Johnson v. United States

559 U.S. 133 (2010)

Armed Career Criminal Act • state battery conviction as predicate violent felony

Roberts, Stevens, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor

Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz, P. A. v. United States

559 U.S. 229 (2010)

Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 • bankruptcy attorneys as debt relief agencies

Graham County Soil and Water Conservation Dist. v. United States ex rel. Wilson

559 U.S. 280 (2010)

False Claims Act • bar on qui tam suits based on publicly disclosed allegations

Padilla v. Kentucky

559 U.S. 356 (2010)

Sixth Amendment • ineffective assistance of counsel • legal advice on deportation as consequence of conviction

Thomas

Shady Grove Orthopedic Associates, P. A. v. Allstate Ins. Co.

559 U.S. 393 (2010)

class actions • state rule conflict with Federal Rules of Civil Procedure • Rules Enabling Act

Roberts, Thomas; Stevens, Sotomayor (in part)

Jerman v. Carlisle, McNellie, Rini, Kramer & Ulrich LPA

559 U.S. 573 (2010)

Fair Debt Collection Practices Act • exclusion of legal errors from bona fide error defense

Merck & Co. v. Reynolds

559 U.S. 633 (2010)

Securities Exchange Act of 1934 • securities fraud • statute of limitations • discovery rule and scienter

Thomas

Salazar v. Buono

559 U.S. 700 (2010)

Article III • standing • First Amendment • Establishment Clause • display of religious symbol on government land • land transfer from government to private owner

Thomas

Holster v. Gatco, Inc.

559 U.S. 1060 (2010)

Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 • class actions • state rule conflict with Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Scalia concurred in the Court's decision to grant certiorari, vacate, and remand the lower court's judgment.

Lewis v. Chicago

560 U.S. 205 (2010)

Title VII • disparate impact claim • statute of limitations

Unanimous

Jefferson v. Upton

560 U.S. 284 (2010)

habeas corpus • presumption of correctness for state court factual determinations • Sixth Amendment • ineffective assistance of counsel

Thomas

per curiam

Samantar v. Yousuf

560 U.S. 305 (2010)

Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act • immunity for officials of foreign states

Alabama v. North Carolina

560 U.S. 330 (2010)

Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact

Stevens, Ginsburg, Alito; Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, Breyer, Sotomayor (in part)

Roberts

Carr v. United States

560 U.S. 438 (2010)

Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act • registration requirements for interstate travel • ex post facto application

Hamilton v. Lanning

560 U.S. 505 (2010)

bankruptcy law • Chapter 13 • Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 • calculation of debtor's projected disposal income

Krupski v. Costa Crociere S. p. A.

560 U.S. 538 (2010)

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure • relation back doctrine

Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder

560 U.S. 563 (2010)

Immigration and Nationality Act • discretionary cancellation of removal proceedings • drug possession as aggravated felony

Holland v. Florida

560 U.S. 631 (2010)

Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 • statute of limitations • equitable tolling

Thomas (in part)

Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection

560 U.S. 702 (2010)

Fifth Amendment • Takings Clause • littoral rights

Roberts, Thomas, Alito; Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor (in part)

Ontario v. Quon

560 U.S. 746 (2010)

Fourth Amendment • government review of employee text messages

Rent-A-Center, West, Inc. v. Jackson

561 U.S. 63 (2010)

Federal Arbitration Act • challenge to enforceability of arbitration agreement

Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, Alito

Doe v. Reed

561 U.S. 186 (2010)

public disclosure of referendum petitions • First Amendment • free speech

Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd.

561 U.S. 247 (2010)

Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 • SEC Rule 10b-5 • extraterritorial application

Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, Alito

Skilling v. United States

561 U.S. 358 (2010)

Enron scandal • Sixth Amendment • Article III • change of venue • juror prejudice from pretrial publicity • honest services fraud

Thomas; Kennedy (in part)

Black v. United States

561 U.S. 465 (2010)

honest services fraud • Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure • preservation of objections to jury instructions

Thomas